All Films

Schoolhouse Rock! Earth

2009 • 50 min

Classic "Schoolhouse Rock!" cartoons take on a brand-new attitude in this collection of animated music videos featuring green-themed songs penned to celebrate Earth Day. Kids will have a blast and learn that conservation is important.

Pivot

2009 • 5 min • Netherlands

When a man is the accidental witness of a murder and takes pictures of it, he has to run for his life. During the pursuit, a tussle takes place and he manages to turn the tables. Now, he is the pursuer. This leads to a dramatic end.

Bunker Hill: A Tale of Urban Removal

2009 • 23 min • United States of America

A short film by Greg Kimble.

Never Drive a Car When You're Dead

2009 • 4 min

Short animation film about a man driving through a cityscape.

Minus

2009 • 23 min • Iran

"Minus" is a fiction and at the same time experimental movie, which doesn't enjoy any distinct geography, language and time. The events occur in a razor producing company, in which a young and simple retainer is working, who has special capabilities. He knows telepathy and he can read the minds of all people and even things. Most of the time, his predictions increase his ability of presentiment.

Shunga

2009 • 5 min • Japan

El cielo de los ratones

2009 • 19 min • Puerto Rico

Mice have taken over the household. Its silence is thick with words unspoken. A mother, a child, and a lover are pulled together and pushed apart by their love and soon find themselves trapped in a labyrinth of listlessness.

The Contract

2009 • 13 min • St. Lucia

The first ever St Lucian short film.

Fighters

2009 • 13 min • Spain, Mexico

Fighters is a portrait of the current realities of both the urban and rural Mexican woman. Filmed in Mexico City and the State of Zacatecas this film documents the primary circumstances, difficulties, obstacles and preoccupations that women face daily in this country. Poverty, hunger, * machismo*, mass migration, and social inequality -- these are some of the issues that are explored through their testimonies. Women from various professions, ages and social-economic statuses share their stories and their hopes for the future, and create a portrait of a Mexico where women are taking more of a central role.

Bond

2009 • 9 min

On January 19, 1982, Lilian lives her first disappointment. She is fifteen and after waiting for a long time, she realises that she has been abandoned. Lilian returns home alone and on her way she understands what pain is. On January 19, 1982, Elis Regina died at the age of 36. And the whole city understands what loss is. That day, Lilian and the city are the same.

Sofá Verde

2009 • 8 min • Brazil

Two young men carry a couch through the city.

Once Upon a Time...: Children of Paradise

2009 • 51 min • France

Television documentary about the making of Marcel Carné's 1945 film "Children of Paradise"

Bergen

2009 • 27 min

Two men meet in a run-down Vilnius restaurant - an old man and a young thug named Vytas. After a couple of drinks, the old man suggests that Vytas, who is emigrating to Bergen the following day, can save the restaurant's singer from hardship if he were to take her away with him.

You are a Terrorist

2009 • 2 min • Germany

You are a Terrorist! A Campaign against Terrorists. United for a safer Germany. The Campaign "Du bist Deutschland" (You are Germany) in 2005 was the beginning of a wave of positive spirit in the whole country. This combined energy has turned backwards in 2009, because now you are a potential Terrorist and you have to be watched closely.

Waterland Song

2009 • 31 min • Italy, Portugal

David, wood-mask sculptor, and Adélia, ancient songs connoisseur, are the characters of this movie set in Trás-os-Montes, north-east of Portugal. They testify the neglect condition of this land, where survive traces of a prehistoric ocean.

Fish Fry Night Milwaukee

2009 • 56 min • United States of America

The Friday night fish fry has been a Wisconsin family tradition for many years. It happens all year long, not only during Lent when Catholics don't eat meat on Fridays. "Fish Fry Night Milwaukee" is a film that takes you to some of Milwaukee's most popular, historic and unique fish fry places, to see the people who make them and enjoy them.

Park

2009 • 14 min • France

A park in a big city. On the same day, four people are going to cross each other for the first time, then again, but this time in circumstances a little bit particular.

I Speak True Things

2009 • 6 min • Croatia

An animated short drawn in chalk.

Cities of Gold and Mirrors

2009 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Ciudades de oro y espejos (2009), shot in 16mm in Quintana Roo, is a film consisting of five scenes planned to occur principally in and around the city of Cancún, which was founded in 1970. There, a group of springbreakers; a hotel with dolphins in its pool; a member of the Bloods dancing atop a Mayan archaeological site called El Rey; the demolition of a mirrored building; and the interior of the night club Cocobongo appear one after the other, set to a particular looped recording: Le feu de St. Elme, by Haïm Saban and Shuki Levy. This music is part of the soundtrack to an animated series about Spanish conquistadors, Mysterious Cities of Gold (1982).

Flash Happy Society

2009 • 8 min • Brazil

Science fiction based on real facts.

Notes on the Other

2009 • 14 min • Spain

On July 13, 1924, Ernest Hemingway was on a balcony in Pamplona, Spain and saw a wounded main lying on the other side of the street. He became consumed with the feeling that he was that man, seeing himself in the near-dead Spaniard who had been attacked by bulls. "I am him," Hemingway later wrote. It was the very first time he wanted to be someone else, so he created the character of the adventurous writer. Notes on the Other follows the example of Hemingway's remarkable sensation in the form of an annual Hemingway lookalike contest in Key West, Florida. Dozens of older men do their utmost to be Hemingway, but what are they looking for?

Chalk & Chocolate

2009 • 50 min • Slovenia

The film is a story of one of the best climbers in the world Natalija Gros, who struggles to climb one of the most challenging verticals in Slovenia: Histerija (8c+) in Mišja pec. The camera follows Natalija’s story during her conquering the Histerija and during the climbing season (trainings, competitions, injuries, testings). Natalija is the first woman in Slovenija to climb such a difficult wall (8c+). So far, only a few female climbers in the world have succeeded in acquiring such a result.

Unemployed

2009 • 27 min • Poland, Russia

They are the experts of their job. Over a hundred thousand professionals. They are brave, courageous yet simple Russian men. Their families await them but for their country they simply do not exist. In their homeland they are unemployed.

O rapto do Peixe-Boi

2009 • 15 min • Brazil

There's a party in the river bottom.